>> tonight, school kids running for their lives. in decatur georgia it begins with a shooting. this one has a different ending. bob orr has the latest. hundreds battle wild fires in the west, the right es mark for the first -- highest mark for the first time in five years. ben trace he is on the fire line. they are arrested as the government continues the crack down and pressure builds on the united states to cut off aid. charlie d'agata is in cairo and talks to the foreign minister. and one of the greatest criminal minds ever. we'll remember author elmore leonard. >> i don't want my reader ever to be aware of me. i want to be lost in the book.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> good evening, scott's off tonight. i'm bob schieffer. well it had all the makings of on the school tragedy. another teenager arnold with an assault rival got into a school f atlanta today and opened fire. kids from pre-k to fifth grade ran for their lives. the big news in this story is what did not happen. this time no one was hurt and the suspect is in custody. our justice department correspondent bob orr has the latest. >> the incident sent more than 800 elementary students, teachers and staffers scrambling for safety at the ronald mcnair learning academy in decatur georgia. a lone gunman showed up at the elementary school just afternoon

armed with an ak-47 assault rival. sources say the 19-year-old gun man entered the school and exited twice to fire shots into the air. police say during his time in the building the gunman ordered a school secretary to call wsv. station employee lacey answered that call. she says i'm transferring someone and she says she's in a school office with a gunman. i asked her what he wanted and he said he wanted us to start filming as police die. >> the dekalb county police responded to the school. according to chief alexander fired at the gunman. >> he fired anywhere from half a dozen shots when he fired out of the building at police officers when approaching the scene. when officers had a clear shot they returned fire. fortunately no one was injured. >> the gunman quickly surrendered. fourth grader raven cobb was inside the school when the shooting erupted.

>> we were at our desk and put our head down. >> hundreds of the classmates were evacuated in a caravan of school bus. raven's father darrell was waiting with other anxious parents. >> a lot in your heart. it is going on over the news and did not know whether it was going on. it was a good feeling to know none of the kids were hurt. >> the sources say the gunman doesn't have terrorists connections but does have history with police. asked how he got into the school building, bob, police say he apparently walked through an opened door right behind someone with authorized access. >> all right, well thank you so much, bob. three teenagers in oklahoma were charged today in the murder of a college athlete from australia, a seemingly random act. prosecutors say the defendants did it because they were bored. lisa monahan from kwtv in oklahoma city reports. >> christopher lane was gunned down while jogging on this road friday in duncan, oklahoma.

according to the police they said they didn't have anything to do so they decided to kill somebody. police chief danny ford. >> they witnessed a man on the street and chose him as a target. >> police say they followed lane in a car and shot him in the back. a 16-year-old chancey alan luna is accused of pulling the suspect. the other cess peck is 17 year old michael duane jones and 15 year old james transedwards. prosecutors say edwards laughed during his arrest. his father is james edwards. >> after reading the charges why are you so confidence he's innocent. >> because he didn't pull the trigger, number one. he was just there. >> christopher lane was 22. he was studying at east central university in oklahoma. he was a catcher on the baseball team. he had just returned last weak from his native australia and was visiting his girlfriend. his parents peter and donna lane spoke in melbourne australia. >> it's not going to be any good

out of this because it was just senseless. there wasn't anything he did or could have done. he was an athlete going for a job. he was working six days a week in his training schedule. >> the teens have been charged as adults and they could face up to life in prison. bob police were able to track down these teams because their car was caught on nearby surveillance cameras. >> thank you lisa. the wild fire outbreak in the west is now so brad the prepare anything level -- so bad the preparedness level is so high to make sure all possible resources get where they are needed and they are needed in plenty of places. 53 fires now are burning in 11 states, nearly 1800 firefighters have been battling the beaver creek fire in idaho. fire department spokesman says the fire is shaped like pacman at the resort town of catchum between its jaws.

>> they continued to gain ground at the beaver creek valley. they built fire lanes to keep the flames away from the main highway. more than 104,000 acres already burned, this flame remains one of the 47 wild fires that's stretching the nation's resources. >> we have hand crews and resources from the east coast, from the midwest. >> evans kuo is in charge. 1800 firefighters are fighting, this has already cost $12 million. raging in the west, national fire officials have placed most of resources here. >> we were under extreme competition with a lot of other fires going on in the area. so it's up to somebody to determine what's the priority fire. we can't afford to be everywhere at once in a long term sustaining. we share resources around the country as necessary. >> 29 year old ryan green is from arkansas. his crew made up of 20 exhausted firefighters fought wild fires in colorado and washington state

before coming here to idaho. >> we've been on the line 40 out of the last 50 days, most of it in idaho, probably even on vacation. but like i said, it's a privilege to get to come out here. to be a resource to help people. >> the tiny town of haley is thankful. the home of will and linda andrews was among those saved. >> we watched them roll into the fire station and disappear into it. we had a pretty uncomfortable night. >> we mention that that fire preparedness level has been raised to the critical level 5. that means they can ask for federal and international resources to fight these fires. so far in i'd hay we've seen the national guard helping the check points and neighborhoods that have been evacuated. >> ben tracy. thanks ben. in egypt the military leaders want to leave no doubt who is in charge. today they arrested the muslim brotherhood supreme leader.

it is another ramping up of the crackdown that began when they ousted president mohammad morsi and took him in custody. >> it was a humiliating defeat for the hospital lead hold badey was shown on tv looking tired and intimidated. he's charged with inciting violence. it's the violence and the government crackdown to clear protests that brought international condemnation and calls for the u.s. to suspend its billion dollar aid package. today interim foreign minister is fighting a war. >> they will not be determined whether we get aid from one country to another. >> do you understand americas have been saying we can no

longer back this government. >> i can understand why you would be worried and concerned about the loss of life. i can't understand how you can be silent about the terrorism. i know your values, i lived in america. your silence is appalling in comparison what you stand up for your country. >> the country will investigate whether security forces have used excessive force in the past week but protesters have attacked government buildings, churches and hospitals. >> we can debate whether there was restraint or not. do you really want to stand up and say shooting, burning a hospital isn't terrorism. >> at the same time are you willing to accept the security forces fired into crowds. >> into targets, into crowds, i'm sure they did.

fired into targets in crowded areas, i'm sure they did. but they were targeting particular issues and people. >> the other people in the crowd were collateral damage. >> they were also shooting from inside the crowd. >> every night on egyptian tv you see nothing but videos allegedly showing gun men where people carrying weapons through these muslim brotherhood demonstration. the real problem is in the numbers. the civilian death toll overwhelmingly numbered that of security forces. >> charlie, how seriously is the military government there taking these steps that the united ctually cut off military aid to egypt? >> well, we put that question to the interim foreign minister who told us she's quick to pointed out the united states isn't the only country providing aid here. several countries in the region have actually increased their assistance here.

saudi arabia for one has said that they will match any losses that the united states may bring or anybody else for that matter, dollar for dollar. >> all right. well thank you, charlie. president obama called in his top national security advisors to the white house today to talk about the crises. some in congress say the white house has already called off military aid to the egyptians. but the white house is denying that major garrett is there tonight. major, what do you make of that. >> well, i can tell you this bob. on here at the whitehouse. it's a very intense debate going on here at the white house. so intense the white how is keeping many of the details under wraps. they won't even tell us for example, bob, how long the president's meeting with his national security team lasted today. what's clear is egypt has never been more in jeopardy. some lawmakers say $600 million in impending aid from the united states to egypt has been temporarily suspended. the white house denies this. the truth is somewhere in between. the united states has until september 30th to deliver that military aid which means it's not been suspended and hasn't been halted. it's just in limbo and it's a practical reason why that's

true. the white house believes this military aid is leveraged. let me give you two examples. within the next month the administration is due to send ten apache helicopters and repair kits for u.s.-made tanks the military used to egypt. if the egypt military government doesn't release military brothers from the muslim breadth hood or take steps for new election those two programs could be canceled. >> thanks very much, major. attorney general beau biden, the vice president's son, is under going tests for cancer in happen in hughes. to figure out why biden became weak and disoriented last week. family members including his father is with him. beau biden is 44, he suffered a mild stroke three years ago. there's a new leak at the crippled japanese nuclear plant, a close call for dick van dyke and dog days of summer at the white house when the cbs evening news continues. summer at the white house. when the "cbs evening news"

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>> there's been another leak at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan. today the operators said 80,000 gallons of highly radioactive water escaped from the storage tank. on top of another massive leak discovered last month. all this bad news has devastated japan's fishing industry. seth doane now with more on that.

>> there haul on this day was a good one, at least for fishermen in fukushima. octopus is one of the seafood items is deemed safe enough to eat in these waters. more than a year after the march 2011 earthquake in tsunami that destroyed the fukushima plant here, fishing was not allowed at all. it finally resumed in june of 2012. then in late july of this year, the plant was found to be pouring 75,000 gallons of radioactive water a day into the pacific. it seems like we took one step forward and as soon as things were getting brighter, the leakage put a damper on it, fisherman told us. before the earthquake there were -- today there are 130 but the really surprising number is they used to haul in around 19,000 tons of fish a year. today they bring in just 300 tons.

that's 2% of the catch. >> with much of the fish still off limits, de me says he urns 10% what he's used to. he relies on the power company which owns the nuclear plant. would you eat what you're catching. now after the announcement of the leaking, he told us, i have doubts that our fish is 100% safe to eat. but his fishermen's collective in this county of japan tests a sample of the fish that's caught for radioactive and other contaminants. so far in this type of octopus none is detected. it's display along with octopus in the supermarket. kazuko matsui says she's confident enough to feed it to her grandchildren. i think it's safe to eat and i want to get rid of the bad rumors. we should eat it to prove how safe it is. but the dangers are far more evident.

today 15 types of fish are considered safe to catch here compared with 150 before the disaster. seth doane, cbs news fukushima, japan. >> dick van dyke had a close call today. that is his jaguar yesterday in flames on an l.a. freeway. other drivers saw it smoking, pulled him out before the fire started. van dyke was not hurt and showed his sense of humor as sharp as ever in 87. he sent out a tweet today saying he had a used jag for sale really cheap. he proved that crime does pay, with hit movies like get shorty. we'll remember author elmore leonard next.

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>> scheiffer: elmore leonard died today. he was 87. it was a stroke. he was maybe the best crime and mystery writer ever, a master of spare writing. he'd get the verbs close to the nouns as he rolled together stories about the worst people imaginable and somehow made them entertaining. elmore leonard wrote 45 novels the same way-- in long hand, never on computer. first, westerns and later the

stories that celebrated con men and killers. hollywood loved them. >> i've got a question. >> scheiffer: dozens were made in the movie, including home beret and pretend the unit. in 1995, his career took off with "get shorty." >> is this your ride? >> yes, i like to sit up high and check everything out. it is the cadillac of mini vans. >> scheiffer: he liked that movie but leonard hated most of the adaptations. he didn't think the directors got his characters right. >> thank you. >> scheiffer: at a book signing in 1998, he told the audience the characters were everything. >> i don't want my reader ever to be aware of me. i want you to be lost in the book the same way i get lost when i'm writing it. >> scheiffer: leonard published ten rules of writing in which he advised young authors, if it sounds like writing, rewrite it. he got that right. there's a new edition to the first family.

meet sunny, the obama's new female portuguese water dog, playing here with bo. the first lady thought bo needed more dog interaction. pets have been a part of most every white house. the clintons had socks the cat, the fords, liberty, the golden retriever. and benjamin harrison had whiskers the goat who pulled grandkids around in a cart. one time, whiskers made a break for it and the bewhiskered president ran after his grandson. you can't keep this one from fading into history, next. from fading into history, next. ,,

days. how u-s marshals are making a difference. next on kpix-5. weather talent appears at wx center with generic pinpoint filling monitor then we take special >> america is in danger of >> america is in danger of losing one of its links to the past. a lighthouse in the is name one of the endangered historical landmarks. it's literally on the edge of disaster. here's joel axelrod. >> it's from his office. >> it's amazing to be here. >> it's the keeper of the lighthouse atop the cliffs atop martha's vineyard. going away from erosion. >> from the cliff to the lighthouse exactly. >> how much time do you have

>> with date of 2015 that this lighthouse to be moved by that year. >> or what. >> we tumble into the sea. >> the lighthouse is the prominent place on list of the country's most dangerous historical landmarks. they need $3 million to move it as far as 500 feet. >> you're playing against mother nature. >> there's been a lighthouse since 1779. this one was built in 1856 at a time when this channel was the busiest shipping lane in the country and they were guided by the beacon on the hill. >> it's two thing. it's warning about those rocks and it's welcoming you home. >> even today the lighthouse plays its part in keeping the local economy going. hundreds of tourists are drawn here each day. cully vanderhoop whose family has been running the businesses along the lighthouse for years. you like it when they come up. >> i do, i really do. >> would it be different losing

that lighthouse. >> it's like losing a member of your family. takes a part of your heart and soul. >> surveyors and engineers have identified three potential spots where the lighthouse would be safe for another hundred years. >> it's really a matter of keeping the lighthouse here, that's the job of the lighthouse keeper. it's preserving the light. this is a big part of life here. >> and they still need a welcome. >> yes, they need a welcome. >> because those who love this light house are not willing to see the light go dark. jim axelrod, cbs news, martha's vineyard, massachusetts. >> and that's the news. bob schieffer, cbs news in new york. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

a -- this is kpix 5 news. >> the level of violence on our streets is intoll herrable. oakland police get extra muscle to talk it will city's crime crisis. i am allen martin. >> i am elizabeth cook. new at 6:00 tonight, the street violent in oakland has reached disturbing new levels. adonis people were shot just this past weekend. even oakland policed a mitt they are outgunned and overwhelmed. today, kpix 5's linda yee learned the copes are getting a big boost from the feds. >> a wild shootout in plane sight. street violence that some in east oakland says happens everyday. >> it ise it is normal. >> just this month, an 8-year- old girl shot and killed during a sleep over. a pay by and its young father

killed while sleeping. a 66-year-old woman gunned down while driving near her home. >> 21 children have been killed here in the last 18 months, and a dozen people were shot just this last weekend. level of violence on our streets is intolerable. >> today, agents announce they are stepping up efforts to help oakland police clean up bad guys. agents from the fbi, homeland security and the marshal's office have joined sheriff's deputies and the chp in their latest operation. they arrested 25 high risk violent suspects on oakland's most wanted list. >> who are the worst of the worse. who are the ones causing most of the crime, the violence in oakland. those are the ones we will focus on. >> police chief, besides the federal help, he is also focused on operation cease fire where officers meet with gang leaders. >> we're constantly dialing who are the most